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Fucking Europeans. They have no problem telling us hos shitty we are. But if we comment once on something that happens in their country, we get the typical "don't comment on our country, because you don't live there".
What I don't get is the intensity. I can't tell if it's sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you're not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it's not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?
Interestingly enough there have already been attempts to shift to metric since at least the 70's but it's mostly been pushed back by conservatives.
People are not really pissed about it but more annoyed because there are loads of loudmouth Americans out there screaming how their country is "NUMBER ONE BABY!" and whenever I have to write something with units, I always have to add conversions for Americans because they Wong understand what the entire rest of the world does,which is frankly annoying too.
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Hmm, you're kind of sounding a little pissed though...
I've been on Reddit for years and never seen Americans claiming we're number one. Quite the opposite actually. Same here so far. Not sure where you're hanging out that you're hearing Americans saying that, but I would argue that it's a minority view. As far as converting for us, I would say, don't. The sooner Americans have to go do it themselves, the sooner everyone else in the world can stop caring about it.
The previous poster is using projection as a defense. That means he's out of arguments.
European here, we're not all like that. I do think the metric system is better (not least because I'm used to it, probably), but I'm not about to use "hurr durr u so stoopid using imperial" as an argument in a conversation about privacy and the unfeasibility of using public transport in a system where that infrastructure is clearly deficient.
That guy's a cunt, but don't generalise that any more than you'd want me to generalise Bush to be the average US-American.
That would actually be the entire rest of the world. Also the scientific part of the US, as everyone got the memo on that the metric system is just so much better.
Sorry for poking at it but it's tiresome that I continuously need to add conversions to weird units for Americans because if I don't I get flushed with messages if I can please use "real units" or "freedom units". Stop using a badly designed 300 year old system and join the rest of the world already. Even your scientists and engineers already do so, its just that the rest of your citizens don't want to hop on for some reason.
And hey, you're free to criticize Europe if you want, there is more than enough legit criticism to be had. It's just that Europe doesn't have the level of issues that the US has and at least Europe isn't screaming around that they're the best. Europe generally knows that it's flawed but it's trying to get better. The US is rolling off a cliff whilst screaming they're number one. Eh, okay then!